random chatter…

[Feb 6] If you are using my translation for scanlation, please allow 7 day-ish before starting. Especially for the newest releases, just so other readers get a chance to correct my mistakes. Unless you don’t mind updating the images and uploading them again, etc. Fixing text for me is easy, so I tweak words when necessary.

[Jan 27] A reader asked me to translate the one-liner teaser at the end of magazine releases. I don’t bother reading those because they don’t feel meaningful in the long-run (if not misleading sometimes) and they get deleted in the book compilation. I suspect they’re added by the editor and not directly written by the author. But I will try adding them for a while and see how things go.

[Oct 14] There were definite retouches on some, if not all, of the word balloons and text in the Deluxe editions. The balloon size, balloon tail, and wordings show signs of tweaking, and new typos were introduced, unfortunately. :\

[Jul 27] Thanks to two donations so far I have just placed an order for volume 57, 58 and Deluxe volumes 1&2. I’ll update the translations here as necessary.

[Apr 7] a reader made this; don’t burn out, start with something small and accumulate; also, take it easy with the text-walls! XD

[Jul 28] Based on scans of volume 55 black pages, updated for chapters 436 to 443. Sorry I haven’t bought any volume since 50.

[Jan 24] I read Gene Yang’s “Boxers” (half of “Boxers & Saints”) and the term he used for the brothers are “Brother Disciples”. It is still longer to write than “shixiong” or “shidi”, but what do you folks think? Is that a good English translation for the Chinese term (“shixiong” in the scanlation has always been mocked by the Chinese fandom, :P)?

[Sep 18] Wikispaces is not going to host fandom stuff for free anymore. I didn’t like my ugly WP version of the wiki, so here you go, a crude PDF backup from wikispaces prior to being closed out. I’m looking at TiddlyWiki. Maybe host it in DropBox. Don’t abuse my efforts, thank you.